Healthy Wildlife Blog

The Vancouver Rat Project and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative were recently awarded $25,000 in the City of Vancouver’s annual Street Cleaning Grant to begin research on a solution to the persistent city-wide rat...

A 647 lb endangered leatherback sea turtle was found frozen in the ice along the shoreline of the Bras d’Or Lake in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia on February 8th, 2018. This particular leatherback...

Transmission of disease between wildlife and livestock is a concern addressed by wildlife managers, livestock producers and veterinarians trying to protect their respective populations and maintain food safety. Ongoing concern has been expressed by...

Recently, pine grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator) exhibiting a clinical presentation consistent with that of scaly-leg disease have been captured at banding stations in Saskatchewan and Alberta. No previous instances of pine grosbeaks diagnosed with scaly-leg...

This is your weekly Bat Monday, brought to you by the national white-nose syndrome coordinator. Bat Monday compiles the latest on bat and white-nose syndrome related news articles, scientific publications, videos, and other resources....

During the month of February we received several mentions from bird watchers reporting birds with eye lesions in southern Quebec. The clinical presentation observed in the pictures provided by observers is highly suggestive of mycoplasmosis....

This is your weekly Bat Monday, brought to you by the national white-nose syndrome coordinator. Bat Monday compiles the latest on bat and white-nose syndrome related news articles, scientific publications, videos, and other resources....